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...members of the committee believes that the cost of sending a space shuttle into Earch orbit can be reduced to $20 per pound. President Nixon's proposed shuttle will cost $100 per pound, Hopkins said, although it does have cheaper research and development expenditures...
James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, who is the chairman of the Commission, said yesterday that the Commission's main fault has been that it is not well enough known to undergraduates and therefore the problems it handles are "out of the student orbit...
...that Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton would never forget. On March 15, 1962, only two months before the taciturn astronaut was scheduled to become the second American to orbit the earth, NASA doctors abruptly grounded him. Reason: they had discovered an occasional irregularity in the rhythm of his heartbeat. The bitterly disappointed Slayton subsequently became chief of flight-crew operations at the Manned Spacecraft Center and played a key role in picking all future space crews, including the first men to land on the moon. But even as he sent other astronauts to the launch pad, he never stopped dreaming...
...Star, he was particularly intrigued by Epsilon Eridani. Though most nearby stars are small, relatively faint "red dwarfs," Epsilon Eridani is a bright yellow-orange star somewhat like the sun with about seven-tenths of its mass and 30% of its luminosity. Thus, if there were any planets in orbit around Epsilon Eridani, at least one might be at the right distance from the parent star to receive enough light and heat to sustain the evolution of life. In fact, the similarities between Epsilon Eridani and the sun prompted radio astronomers in 1960 to aim their big antennas...
...once unfettered press, its famed "market socialism," its relaxed, decentralized, federal form of government-just about everything, in short, that Tito eagerly embraced in the early 1950s when he led his vulnerable nation of 21 million on its courageous spin away from Moscow's orthodox Communist orbit. While some believe that the new hard line may be temporary and tactical, the severity of Yugoslavia's swing toward rigidity has led many Yugoslavs to worry that the experiment in Communism-with-a-difference is coming...